MMs /drool draft 2013

[LKP]

my major complaint is other teams arent stupid enough to stop bracket coverage on Calvin just cause were running for 4 yds per carry. Its not opening up anything down field and the JAX game was the first time all year that a solid run game led to sustained drives and points on the board. Id rather see Broyles catch a 4 yd pass then try to make something happen than to see 30+ carries a game. As someone else stated when its a short yardage situation our run blocking oline is getting annihilated. Hey, if they continue to do what they did in JAX then im allowed to change my mind....but i wont be easily fooled because something good came of the run game once vs a shitty team.

Just needs to be one or two guys each week. If it's not the running game it needs to be Titus, Broyles, Pettigrew or Scheffler having a good game. They can alternate for all I care just as long as points get scored.

And Jax wasn't the first game the Lions ran well
18 carries 83 yards 4.6 average vs Rams 2 rushing TDs 27 points
36 141 yards 3.9 average 1 rush TD 41 points at Ten
28 138 yards 4.9 average at Philly 26 points
18 carries 97 yards 5.4 average at Chicago (2 fumbles lost and 4 and out, yardage was there)
34 carries 149 yards 4.4 average at Jax 4 rush TDs

3 wins and a 41 point effort in there. Yardage wasn't problem vs Chicago


Games we didn't run well
26 carries 82 yards 3.2 average with Kevin Smith/Bell at San Fran
20 carries 55 yards 2.5 average (LeShoure/Bell) Minnesota

Average day
22 carries 84 yards 3.8 average Seattle

 

[LKP]

Minnesota and San Fran is before they started incorporating Reiff in more. Plus San Fran is very hard to run on especially with just Kevin Smith

 

[mhughes0021]

Ten and Min were the 2 games that we kept trying to pound the ball the entire first half and we couldnt convert on 3rd downs. We couldnt even flip the field position and if i remember right we had basically 0 points at half in each of those games. Alot of that was on Stafford as well....but im looking at the whole thing together as one offense. If were running a ton and its not leading to points then i just dont get it. A solid consistent run game should help open things up....it just seems like detroit is the only team in the league that their WRs are always blanketed lol. I frikken hate redzone cause all i see is other teams completing huge passes to wide open guys all the time lol....

 

[jde7676]

I think Broyles will be huge going forward. He provides those pass plays that give you run yardarge but with more explosiveness than Burleson had.